Reptilia - Pterosauria - Pteraichnidae
Full reference: M. Lockley, T. J. Logue, J. J. Moratalla, A. P. Hunt, R. J. Schultz and J. W. Robinson. 1995. The fossil trackway Pteraichnus is pterosaurian, not crocodilian: implications for the global distribution of pterosaur tracks. Ichnos 4:7-20
Parent taxon: Pterosauria according to M. Lockley et al. 1995
See also Kim et al. 2006
Sister taxa: Aidacharidae, Anmolpakhi, Antipus, Archaeopteryx vicensensis, Arcticodactylus, Austriadactylus, Austriadraco, Austriadraconidae, Campylognathoides indicus, Campylognathoididae, Carniadactylus, Caviramus, Daohugoupterus, Eopterosauria, Eurolimnornis, Eurolimnornis corneti, Laopteryx, Laopteryx priscus, Macronychoptera, Ornithocephaliformes, Ornithocheirus hilsensis, Ornithocheirus nobilis, Ornithochirus, Palaeocursornis, Preondactylus, Ptenodactylus brachyrhinus, Ptenodactylus capito, Ptenodactylus crassidens, Ptenodactylus dentatus, Ptenodactylus enchorhynchus, Ptenodactylus eurygnathus, Ptenodactylus macrorhinus, Ptenodactylus oxyrhinus, Ptenodactylus platystomus, Ptenodactylus polyodon, Ptenodactylus scaphorhynchus, Ptenodactylus tenuirostris, Pteranodontes, Pterodactyli, Pterodactyloidea, Pterodactylus curtus, Pterodactylus hopkinsi, Pterodactylus huxleyi, Pterodactylus oweni, Pterodactylus primus, Pterodactylus suprajurensis, Rhamphorhynchoidea, Rhamphorhynchus jessoni, Rhamphorhynchus manselii, Rhamphorhynchus pleydellii, Samrukia, Scaphognathoidea, Seazzadactylus, Sharivopterygia, Tribelesodontoidea, Wukongopteridae, Ptenodactylus
Subtaxa: Pteraichnus Purbeckopus
Type: Pteraichnus
Ecology: volant piscivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Argentina (1 collection), Canada (2: Alberta, British Columbia), China (11), Japan (1), Mexico (2), South Korea (4), Spain (9), the United Kingdom (2), United States (2: Utah)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Spain (1)
• Jurassic of France (1), Poland (1), Portugal (2), Spain (4), United States (13: Arizona, California, Colorado, Oklahoma, Utah, Wyoming)
Total: 56 collections including 62 occurrences